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Title: Features would like added
Post by: Shayne on August 17, 2005, 09:52:04 AM
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=74505 <- can we have

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=141622 <- can we have too



..and a quick reply mod would kick ass, though i cant seem to find one.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Mr. Analog on August 17, 2005, 09:54:22 AM
Is there a new RSS address?
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Shayne on August 17, 2005, 09:58:17 AM
...and a mod to instantly redirect back to the thread you posted on instead of the "forum or message" choice screen would be kick ass too.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Shayne on August 17, 2005, 09:58:39 AM
Quote from: "Mr. Analog"Is there a new RSS address?

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=144548 <- another mod to install
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Darren Dirt on August 17, 2005, 10:03:49 AM
...and from one of the above linked threads, what about:



Download 68 additional phpBB smilies free at www.2dvalley.com/smilies.shtml
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Shayne on August 17, 2005, 10:10:35 AM
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=71914 <- kicks ass too

demo: http://www.opentools.de/index.php?page=3 (though it has debug running i think)
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Darren Dirt on August 17, 2005, 10:11:56 AM
Quote from: "Mr. Analog"
Quote from: "Melbosa"Ahhh ok its cause they are linked outside my forum.  onna turn that off.
Dang...



Hey Mel my no-tanks av disappeared already, you're soddin' quick! Not getting much work done at work today eh ;)
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Lazybones on August 17, 2005, 10:20:05 AM
I helped Melbosa search for fourm software when he had trouble getting IpB going again.



phpBB was probably the best board that supported all the features that RW usesd and had active/healthy on going development.



phpBB is used on some of the largest fourms on the net http://www.big-boards.com/



- There are many mods

- There are many skins

- It was one of the few boards that could fully import Invision powerboard

- Supports RSS, Polls, and a Calender with mods.. Surprisingly many forums don't support all three of these.

- Bloat that you would see client side can be nearly eliminated with a different style. There are many Light CSS based styles.

- Because of its maturity there are many admin controls built in as well as admin mods. A good admin interface is important, that why Invision and VBullitin are popular.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Darren Dirt on August 17, 2005, 10:25:37 AM
Quote from: "Lazybones"I helped Melbosa search for fourm software when he had trouble getting IpB going again.



phpBB was probably the best board that supported all the features that RW usesd and had active/healthy on going development.



phpBB is used on some of the largest fourms on the net http://www.big-boards.com/





stats=quick_skim("http://www.big-boards.com/",""TotalPosts");



stats.assert("shocking" , eval(

" AnimeRoleplaying > IGN > SomethingAwful > AnandTech > Gamespy > Erotica "

) );



// always surprising what has a more involved and active community ;)



Title: Features would like added
Post by: Melbosa on August 17, 2005, 10:54:35 AM
Quote from: "Mr. Analog"Is there a new RSS address?



Quote from: "Shayne"
Quote from: "Mr. Analog"Is there a new RSS address?

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=144548 <- another mod to install



RSS Feed Details



Yeah that was a nice one that Shayne posted, but I found a better one that will work off login and also works as an ATOM one too.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Melbosa on August 17, 2005, 10:55:46 AM
Quote from: "Shayne"http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=74505 <- can we have




Attachment Mod - no because I don't have the space on the server to store all types of attachments and my bandwidth is always a consideration.  So unfortunately I won't implement this one.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Melbosa on August 17, 2005, 11:00:45 AM
Hmmm split doesn't work the way I thought it would.  Moderators make sure you know the difference between the two buttons.  One on the left works like IPB, one on the right splits from first check box on.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Melbosa on August 17, 2005, 11:05:37 AM
Quote from: "Shayne"http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=141622 <- can we have too



Remove Sig/Avatars - This is one mod that will take a bit of work to implement.  It requires SQL modifications and physical changes to webpages.  Don't know if we want to go this far with MODs?
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Lazybones on August 17, 2005, 11:07:37 AM
Quote from: "Melbosa"
Quote from: "Shayne"http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=141622 <- can we have too



Remove Sig/Avatars - This is one mod that will take a bit of work to implement.  It requires SQL modifications and physical changes to webpages.  Don't know if we want to go this far with MODs?



Probably want to avoid mods that alter the webpages too much.. It will probably create conflicts with styles and create formating issues.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Melbosa on August 17, 2005, 11:13:38 AM
Quote from: "Lazybones"
Quote from: "Melbosa"
Quote from: "Shayne"http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=141622 <- can we have too



Remove Sig/Avatars - This is one mod that will take a bit of work to implement.  It requires SQL modifications and physical changes to webpages.  Don't know if we want to go this far with MODs?



Probably want to avoid mods that alter the webpages too much.. It will probably create conflicts with styles and create formating issues.



True but might have a problem or two, as most of the mods I see work like this.  There are a couple I know we would want, like the Moderator Merge Topic system.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Shayne on August 17, 2005, 11:23:56 AM
is there a mod that keeps the "unread posts" unread until i press a link to have them marked as read?  I find that im coming to the forum seeing 2 boards with new topics, check the first, go back and the other forum is now marked as read.  Also has the same issue with threads.  5 threads unread, but as soon as i view one, they all become marked as read.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Melbosa on August 17, 2005, 11:42:06 AM
Quote from: "Shayne"...and a mod to instantly redirect back to the thread you posted on instead of the "forum or message" choice screen would be kick ass too.



Redirects in 3 seconds.  To reduce flooding.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Mr. Analog on August 17, 2005, 11:44:37 AM
This might only be a FireFox thing, but the view "last" post button on the left side of the "New Post" search doesn't seem to work, but the view "last" post button on the right side (next to the last posers name) does.



Weird!
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Lazybones on August 17, 2005, 12:40:48 PM
Event Calender

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=150857

Not 100% approved yet.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Lazybones on August 17, 2005, 12:52:50 PM
Another mod that includes a bunch of User config options

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=150925

Again not 100% approved by the phpBB mod team.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Lazybones on August 17, 2005, 12:54:52 PM
How about a MOD  manager to make installing these things easy?



http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?sid=&f=17&t=20388
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Darren Dirt on August 17, 2005, 02:39:32 PM
Quote from: "Shayne"is there a mod that keeps the "unread posts" unread until i press a link to have them marked as read?  I find that im coming to the forum seeing 2 boards with new topics, check the first, go back and the other forum is now marked as read.  Also has the same issue with threads.  5 threads unread, but as soon as i view one, they all become marked as read.



I really liked the old InVision function that allowed you to say "Find All Posts Between X1DaysAgo and Today/X2DaysAgo... Unfortunately it seems the closest thing is the Search, but it requires at least one keyword.



The reason I am complaining is because I did a "show new since last on", which worked great. But when I did a shift-click of each link, and was going to read each one as I waited for some agents to run, etc. well guess what? IEXPLORE.EXE went boom, the opened windows were cremated, and now the PHPBB thinks I already read them. :( So I had to go section by section, and look at the last-post date  :roll:





Anyone know of a built-in function, or a Mod, that allows for more easily finding all-posts-in-date-range?
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Lazybones on August 17, 2005, 02:51:23 PM
Quote from: "Darren Dirt"
Anyone know of a built-in function, or a Mod, that allows for more easily finding all-posts-in-date-range?



This one sounds close

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=299341
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Darren Dirt on August 17, 2005, 03:01:14 PM
Quote from: "Lazybones"
Quote from: "Darren Dirt"
Anyone know of a built-in function, or a Mod, that allows for more easily finding all-posts-in-date-range?



This one sounds close

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=299341



!!! Sure it's close, if by close you mean Wow Yeah Perfect Exactly Yes Install It Now (Pleez) !!!
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Ustauk on August 17, 2005, 03:19:59 PM
Is there a setting  to go to the last unread  post on a thread, or am I just missing something?
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Melbosa on August 17, 2005, 04:13:29 PM
Quote from: "Lazybones"Another mod that includes a bunch of User config options

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=150925

Again not 100% approved by the phpBB mod team.



K this one is a bad one.  Took down the forums completely.  Good thing made a backup first :D
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Darren Dirt on August 17, 2005, 05:22:48 PM
Quote from: "Melbosa"
Quote from: "Lazybones"Another mod that includes a bunch of User config options

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=150925

Again not 100% approved by the phpBB mod team.



K this one is a bad one.  Took down the forums completely.  Good thing made a backup first :D





When 9% say "Poor" (i.e. the lowest rating) you gotta know something's wonky in non-Wonka-land. But the "posts in last X hours" Mod was 100% "Excellent" if I recall :)
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Melbosa on August 17, 2005, 07:44:01 PM
Quote from: "Darren Dirt"
Quote from: "Lazybones"
Quote from: "Darren Dirt"
Anyone know of a built-in function, or a Mod, that allows for more easily finding all-posts-in-date-range?



This one sounds close

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=299341



!!! Sure it's close, if by close you mean Wow Yeah Perfect Exactly Yes Install It Now (Pleez) !!!



OK this one is installed, only downfall is that it does not work with ezHyperShadow because it uses a different menu system.  So if you want to see this, you will have to use a different skin.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Melbosa on August 17, 2005, 07:54:00 PM
Quote from: "Melbosa"
Quote from: "Shayne"http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=141622 <- can we have too



Remove Sig/Avatars - This is one mod that will take a bit of work to implement.  It requires SQL modifications and physical changes to webpages.  Don't know if we want to go this far with MODs?



Not a big deal anyway, couldn't use yet as it doesn't work with current version of table structures (SQL does not parse during install properly).
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Melbosa on August 17, 2005, 08:10:44 PM
Quote from: "Shayne"http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=71914 <- kicks ass too

demo: http://www.opentools.de/index.php?page=3 (though it has debug running i think)



This one added, although it will only have a link through the default skin.  Will post the link in the announcements section.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Melbosa on August 18, 2005, 03:34:48 PM
By the looks of the time, we are going to need this MOD



http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=156902



Or we could just manually change our time settings.  Which would you guys prefer?  Problem is it looks like this MOD might conflict with a Calendar MOD that Lazy and I were planing on implementing.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Darren Dirt on August 18, 2005, 04:49:04 PM
Quote from: "Melbosa"
Quote from: "Shayne"http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=71914 <- kicks ass too

demo: http://www.opentools.de/index.php?page=3 (though it has debug running i think)



This one added, although it will only have a link through the default skin.  Will post the link in the announcements section.





:thumbs up: wow, this one is actually very sweet - all on one page, I like it! http://forums.righteouswrath.com/statistics.php
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Shayne on August 18, 2005, 04:54:37 PM
Quote from: "Darren Dirt"
Quote from: "Melbosa"
Quote from: "Shayne"http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=71914 <- kicks ass too

demo: http://www.opentools.de/index.php?page=3 (though it has debug running i think)



This one added, although it will only have a link through the default skin.  Will post the link in the announcements section.





:thumbs up: wow, this one is actually very sweet - all on one page, I like it! http://forums.righteouswrath.com/statistics.php

The numbers are a bit off since we did the conversion.  Like the user post counts...sure i have 1900 posts but its says i have like 40% of the forum, well you (Darren) also have 40% and Mr.A has 60%...gooder math.



**edit**

The numbers look fine on the stats page, but very wrong in the profiles pages :P  no real issue, it just makes that % thing totally useless.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Melbosa on August 18, 2005, 05:48:59 PM
Quote from: "Shayne"
Quote from: "Darren Dirt"
Quote from: "Melbosa"
Quote from: "Shayne"http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=71914 <- kicks ass too

demo: http://www.opentools.de/index.php?page=3 (though it has debug running i think)



This one added, although it will only have a link through the default skin.  Will post the link in the announcements section.





:thumbs up: wow, this one is actually very sweet - all on one page, I like it! http://forums.righteouswrath.com/statistics.php

The numbers are a bit off since we did the conversion.  Like the user post counts...sure i have 1900 posts but its says i have like 40% of the forum, well you (Darren) also have 40% and Mr.A has 60%...gooder math.



**edit**

The numbers look fine on the stats page, but very wrong in the profiles pages :P  no real issue, it just makes that % thing totally useless.



Its because of the conversion, as some numbers count actual posts and some count posts that were there before conversion.  Also it says that the most posts we had in 1 day was Aug 15, 2005 - 3467 posts, yeah well that is when I did the conversion.  So it might take a year for the stats to really level out.  But hey you wanted it, I provided it.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Darren Dirt on August 19, 2005, 12:27:22 PM
Quote from: "Melbosa"By the looks of the time, we are going to need this MOD



http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=156902



Or we could just manually change our time settings.  Which would you guys prefer?  Problem is it looks like this MOD might conflict with a Calendar MOD that Lazy and I were planing on implementing.



MANUALLY changing the date when in Daylights Saving Time is no big deal, so don't worry about the questionable mod. Plus keep in mind within a few years the USA will make it so DST is 11 months per year ;)
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Lazybones on August 20, 2005, 03:13:47 PM
Topic calendar (http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=150857&highlight=calender+calendar) has been added to the fourms.



Calendar items are added as regular topic posts. At the top right of the forums you should see an arrow and the word Calendar. Clicking on this will expand the preview, currently set to 7 days. If you click on the Calendar Icon in this preview mode it will take you to the full calendar.



Mousing over events should popup a preview of the first post and clicking on it will take you directly to the post if you have permission to view it.



I will be starting another post aobut what else we can do with this feature.
Title: Features would like added
Post by: Ustauk on August 24, 2005, 07:49:19 AM
Quote from: "Ustauk"Is there a setting  to go to the last unread  post on a thread, or am I just missing something?

I finally figured it out, though I'm not sure if its always been there and I just noticed it, or it just got added.  When you mouse over a thread, a right facing arrow in a circle surrounded by a squarish boarder appears.  If you click on that arrow, it takes you to to the new posts.  If there are no new posts, it takes you to the top, and if you hold your mouse over the arrow a tool tip will tell you if there are any new posts.